Posted on 08/30/2010 2:43:40 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
For many, the name Chappaquiddick conjures images of a drunken Sen. Edward Kennedy hitting on Mary Jo Kopechne in his Oldsmobile, losing control, and plunging into the water of Poucha Pond on Chappaquiddick Island, adjacent to Martha's Vineyard where President Obama was vacationing. Kopechne, a family friend, drowned; and Teddy fumbled for excuses about what happened.
Now, a year after Kennedy died, his lifelong biographer Burton Hersh, armed with fresh interviews with Kennedy's mistress at the time, tells Whispers that the whole July 1969 episode should have been handled as a simple crash, leaving the senator's legacy untainted. "It was a car accident," he says. "Ted was a terrible driver. He never paid much attention to where he was going."
"He took a tremendous blow on the head," says Hersh. In interviews following the crash, Kennedy displayed confusion and amnesia, he says.
"If the thing had been handled properly, the first thing they would have done is put him in a hospital. Then they would have said he was a victim of an auto accident and didn't know what he was doing and couldn't be held responsible for anything that happened really after that, which would have been a fair explanation," says author-journalist Hersh, who knew Kennedy since they were classmates at Harvard. "But instead, he felt terribly guilty about the whole thing ... tried to take responsibility and ... just confused the issue."
In Edward Kennedy: An Intimate Biography, Hersh adds some new details about the episode from Helga Wagner, Kennedy's then-girlfriend and "the love of [his] life," at least until he married his second wife, Victoria.
(Excerpt) Read more at politics.usnews.com ...
Helga Wagner, International Queen of Shell Jewelry
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/20518
“”If the thing had been handled properly, the first thing they would have done is arrest his worthless *ss”.
FIFY
Mary Jo didn’t DROWN, she suffocated in an air pocket in the back seat.... she was alive after the crash and he left her there in the cold and the dark to slowly suffocate.
He is evil, and no amount of rewriting will change that.
Think about it...if JFK had been 20 years older, or his wife had been plain, or he hadn’t been assasinated, would there be a “Camelot”?
He certainly had sense enough to get his sorry a$$ back to shore.
Anyway, they can't wipe it out of the newspaper archives, YET.
***The definitive story of Chappaquiddick has already been written by Leo Damore. Senatorial Privilege...***
I read this years ago! It completely devestates all the revisionist Kennedy claims.
Some people wonder why Burton Hersh’s breath smells like Ted Kennedy’s @ss...
This may be the opening lesson of a tutorial in how to pick a turd up by the clean end.
The Navy’s BUDS school at one time had a training schedule that listed “Ted Kennedy Drills” as a training evolution. This intense evolution involved entering the pool undressed and then putting on ones BDU’s while treading water. Don’t know when or if this has been renamed.....
There was an excellent documentary done on this. The police chief of the town said that he believed that Kennedy was not in the car at the time of the accident. The retired police chief said that an officer patroling the area where the accident happened called in on his police radio reporting that there was a large park parked in the dark. When he drove by the car took off.
The police chief believed that after the officer drove by, Kennedy got out of the car and Mary Jo drove the car. This makes sense since Kennedy was probably drunk and would not have wanted to be caught driving drunk.
“In interviews following the crash, Kennedy displayed confusion and amnesia, he says.” You mean a lot like being totally blitzed and not remembering what happened.
That was cold..LOL
His several follow-up statements still don’t ring true, and, they’re still out there regardless of what revisionist historian changes ....
Damore’s book is also very readable, I literally could not put it down except when I had to.
Before his supposed “tremendous blow to the head” Teddy turned off a two lane paved road on to a small unpaved road and drove off a bridge.
After his “blow to the head” he supposedly walked back to the party to meet with his advisers, made dozens of phone calls to his attorney and other advisers, supposedly made several dives attempting to rescue Mary Joe, supposedly swam from the island back to the mainland against the tide and appeared in the lobby of the hotel calm, composed and in dry clothes and talked to the desk clerk.
I don't think anyone is dumb enough to believe Hersh's story but the slimeballs keep making stuff up.
If I recall correctly Kennedy said He WAS in the car so no it doesn’t make sense if that is true.
An utter load of absolutely unconscionable bollocks by a man who clearly cannot seem to get his lips removed from the Kennedy arse - even in death.
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